9/4/2023 0 Comments Dave butler radio![]() ![]() Part of McCallum’s initial purpose, which then became Butler’s, was to purge the process of myth and wishful thinking. ![]() McCallum could not handle statistics, but Butler could, and he furnished the statistical appendix to the British General Election of 1950, by HG Nicholas. The first was produced after the 1945 election by RB McCallum and Alison Readman. The histories of successive elections that came out of Nuffield became an institution. Political Change in Britain (1969), with the US political scientist Donald Stokes, provided the most thorough analysis of its day of what drove people to vote as they did – alongside class, a strong impulse was people’s tendency to vote as their parents did. He published a vast array of books, not all about elections, producing standard texts on the consequences of hung parliaments and who would have to do what if an election failed to give any party a working majority.įailure in British Government: The Politics of the Poll Tax (1996), written with Andrew Adonis and Tony Travers, detailed a stupendous governmental fiasco. ![]() Having done his research degree at Nuffield (1949-51) he continued as a research fellow, and then a fellow (1954-92). ![]() At his seminars at Nuffield College, Oxford, on and off the platform at conferences, over lunches and suppers, on buses ferrying political reporters from one press conference to the next, he gossiped, speculated and reminisced but always, he taught. Sir David Butler, psephologist, was born on October 17, 1924.Above all he was a teacher. A third son, Gareth, was a BBC producer until his death from a heart attack in 2008. He is survived by two sons: Daniel, an author of books on nature and Ed, a producer with BBC external services. She died in 2014 ( obituary March 31, 2014). Twelve years Butler’s junior, Marilyn pursued a distinguished academic career.finally serving 11 years as rector of Exeter College, Oxford, the first woman to hold that post. Years later she revealed this to her husband, who proceeded to remind Donoughue of it every five years. She said she liked David but did not love him and Donoughue advised her not to marry him. After he had proposed, she asked the advice of her Oxford friend Bernard Donoughue. His friend Benn had once set him up on a blind date with Clement Attlee’s daughter, but Butler had only ever had eyes for one woman. Butler’s private life was uncomplicated. A grandfather on his mother Margaret’s side was the historian Professor AF Pollard, a great-grandfather was an 18th-century fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. His father, Harold, was a professor of Latin at University College London. He was brought up in Bloomsbury, attended St Paul’s School and read philosophy, politics and economics at New College, Oxford.he came from what was once called “the intellectual aristocracy”. The Tory grandee RA Butler was his cousin. David Edgeworth Butler was born on October 17, 1924, the day of the first radio election broadcast by the prime minister Stanley Baldwin. When conferring a knighthood on him in 2011, The QUEEN said: “You invented that swingy thing,” to which he replied: “More or less.” And when she asked if it still worked, he again replied: “More or less.”. Psephologist who helped to invent the swingometer and became an essential part of BBC Television’s all-night general election coverage ![]()
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